𝗛𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 – 𝗧𝗵𝗲 “𝟭𝟬𝘅 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿” 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵, 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 AI Mafia

𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆: Developers, relax. AI isn’t coming for you — hype is. Read on to see why.
OpenAI and the broader ecosystem have done some great work. But…
Here’s what we keep seeing:
“30% of our code is now written by AI.”
“Whole projects are being built without developers.”
“25% of new code is AI-generated.”

This isn’t a glimpse of the future. It’s commercial hype — a pitch aimed at investors and enterprise buyers:
“Our AI writes more code than theirs, so spend more with us.”

It’s an intentional narrative. And it’s time we called it out.

𝗪𝗵𝗼’𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲?
You know the names: OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Anthropic, Meta. Yes, they’re doing impressive things at scale. But the noise? And suprisingly media covers a lot of what they have to say not what users have to say. Even funds are pouring b/trillions into AI infrastructure — not sure if out of conviction or out of fear of being left behind.

On a recent podcast, a tech CEO admitted they were still “trying to figure out how to push $80 billion down their balance sheet.”
So what happens? Suddenly AI becomes the reason to fire engineers, raise software prices, and justify unchecked spending.
Guess who is raising software prices?

𝗪𝗲’𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲
Remember Open Source? I feel it gave away full products — free databases, CRMs, ERPs, Linux distros, 10K+ opensource models/ libraries on HuggingFace.
Did developer hiring slow down? No. It exploded.

Because businesses still needed people to:
- Adapt
- Integrate
- Extend
- Build

If open source didn’t kill developer jobs, why would a code generator that spits out for-loops do it?

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹 (𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗼𝘄)
Yes, AI can make you “10x faster” — but at what?
- Finding boilerplate
- Skipping Stack Overflow
- Writing things that already exist
- Spitting out stateless apps

It’s not building systems. It’s not understanding architecture.
It’s autocomplete, scaled up with brute force.
It is also never going to build a StackoverFlow kind of innovative content!

And even after the AI suggests something, the real time goes into:
- Understanding it
- Debugging it
- Fitting it to your customer’s context

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 “𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽” 𝘁𝗼 “𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽”
10–15 years ago, cheap storage gave rise to NoSQL and interesting storage. Now, processing surprisingly became cheap — so let’s burn money on AI FOMO.

𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱
Developers: Jobs will stay.
AI is cool — use it where it fits.
But your job? It’s not disappearing.
And if you’re feeling boxed in, maybe it’s time to switch out of firms focussed on financial-engineering.

Prompt this, GPT: Why do devs still get hired in 2030?
Thank you for reading.
ps : You bet, I reviewed this with GPT :-)
ps : The word mafia is a hilarious way to refer to a group  trying to sell their vested interest wares because of their past FOMNO decisions.